Re: Express, React, Node.JS -- WEB400

Yep, makes sense.

I was hip on using jQuery Mobile for a couple years as well until I learned about BootStrap which seems to be the nicest HTML framework these days - For Now.

I think jQuery Mobile has been somewhat abandoned.

I plan to re-evaluate each year to see what makes sense for adoption and do slight adjustments as needed as to what frameworks I work with.

But as you say it's always good to stay commercially viable.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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message: 4
date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:44:05 +0100
from: Henrik R?tzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Express, React, Node.JS

Richard

EXTJS has gone from an idealistic product to a venture financed product
(Sequoia Capital) to now just another product in a bigger portfolio at
Idera Inc. At the same time venture capital vent in the original designers
(Jack Slocum and others) vent out.

Like AngularJS vs. Angular2+ there was a major change between version 3.x
and 4+ requiring rewrite and with 4+ they introduced a new licensing scheme
that made the product very expensive and not suited to be included in Open
Source since every installation/developer has to have a license.

At the same time EXTJS has no critical mass in the market. Job offerings
requiring EXTJS skills are fairly rear which mean the EXTJS like RPGLE is a
?no go? skill if you ask any IT-career planning consultant or any consult
that works with sort time contract engagements.

The Sencha products are brilliant especially as UI framework for
workstation-based enterprise applications, but that really doesn?t matter,
CPM was better than DOS, OS/2 better that Windows, SNA better that TCP, IBM
I (OS/400) better than Windows etc. but DOS/Windows/TCP/Windows was the
winners.

So, the bottom line is not a technical issue but more a market driven issue
that has caused me to move away.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Henrik,

What's your reasoning for moving away from ExtJS/Sencha ?

It's mainly Javascript but looks interesting if you want to lock in to
their way of doing things.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 4
date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:22:35 +0100
from: Henrik R?tzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] [EXTERNAL] Re: Express, React, Node.JS

Kevin, comming from EXTJS that basically has no HTML but only javascript
component objects, Angular is HTML template driven while REACT uses HTML
imbedded in javascript that in an EXTJS perspective both sucks.
Unfortunately EXTJS isn't an option anymore because of licensing and lack
of critical mass. And as most javascript frameworks moving from EXTJS 3.x
to 4+ requires a more or less total rewrite.

Personal I'm not the great believer in "whatever floats my boat strategies"
by flipping the coin between a lot of technologies every morning, the real
fun for me comes when I enters the higher level of a single technology
instead of knowing the basics in many - but that is just me.